Narges Bajoghli

Narges Bajoghli is a writer, scholar and public intellectual whose work explores the intersections of revolutions, media and war in global politics. She is associate professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she co-directs the Rethinking Iran Initiative and leads Parallax: The Human Stories Lab, a space for ethnographic storytelling and multimedia production. She is the author of Iran Reframed (Stanford University Press), winner of the Margaret Mead Book Award, and co-author of How Sanctions Work. Her forthcoming book, Workshop of War (Princeton University Press), examines how chemical weapons and military technologies have transformed the Middle East into a testing ground for global warfare. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian and Vanity Fair among others. A trained visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, Bajoghli directed The Skin That Burns and created the graphic novella Sanctioned Lives. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and multiple grants at Johns Hopkins University, where she is a recipient of the Catalyst, Discovery and Nexus awards, and currently serves as a Provost’s Public Fellow.